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• New Waves: ‘It’s Never Easy’ by ModernAge

  Quietly, Miami-based New Wave-Post Punk quartet ModernAge, who have a gig at The Garret on Saturday, have been releasing new material over the last several months as they work on a new album. Here’s a teaser video for “It’s Never Easy”, the band’s first single in four years, [...]

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• Ticket giveaway: FELA! at the Arsht Center

  Afrobeat godfather Fela Kuti’s musical, political, and sexual exploits fuel this continent-hopping production, which runs at the Arsht Center until the end of the week. To enter to win a free pair of tickets to the Thursday night performance, simply shout FELA! on the Beached Miami Facebook page [...]

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• Damn Dolphins: The agony and ecstacy of free agency

  The Dolphins' free-agency moves have Nathaniel hoping against hope for hope.

  It doesn’t sit right with me when all of the press about an NFL free agency signing mentions “too much money.”

  I know, there’s a salary cap, and teams need to worry about spreading themselves too thin while calculating resource' [...]

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• Op-ed: The uber hubris of Ultra

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  Just when you thought the beast couldn’t get bigger… — photo via Ultra’s Facebook page

  Notice a huge firework display over Downtown Miami? Can you hear the uhntz uhntz uhntz? No? You will — and soon. And you will hear it again and again this year, for two weekends, especially [...]

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• Miami Pope watchers, bide your time with Vibert

  As Vatican cardinals deliberate on whom to name as Pope Benedict XVI’s successor, it may be interesting to visit a little-known collection of paintings by the 19th Century French artist Jehan Georges Vibert at St. John Vianney College Seminary, a few miles west of Coral Gables.

  
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• Sweatstock 2013 Lineup Announced

  Today, on its eighth birthday, Sweat Records announced the lineup for Sweatstock, its annual all-day, multi-stage music fest. Set for Record Store Day on April 20, Sweatstock will feature performances by more than 30 acts, including Otto Von Schirach, who will headline the main stage outside, ANR, [...]

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• Talking Paris and memoir with Rosecrans Baldwin

  Baldwin will teach a four-day workshop on writing memoir at Miami-Dade College in early May.

  This post is sponsored by the Miami Writers Institute.

  Rosecrans Baldwin is the author of Paris, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down, a travel memoir that GQ named one of its Favorite [...]

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• Photos: Axe and the Oak, Plains, Manray, Killmama at Churchill’s

  Miami-based rock and roll record label Limited Fanfare records presented this four-band showcase at Churchill’s on Friday night. All photos are by Jesse Meadows. To view many more photos from the show, visit the Beached Miami Facebook page.

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• Video: Miami Wants to Be the Next Big Start-Up City

  Last month’s Start-Up City: Miami, an event we previewed in my interview with urbanist Richard Florida, brought together entrepreneurs and techies for a day-long discussion about Miami’s potential future as a global ideas and innovation capital. This video from The Atlantic, which co-hosted the event alongside the Knight [...]

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• Show alert! Bauhaus bash with Peter Murphy

  Former Bauhaus lead singer Peter Murphy will play Grand Central on April 30 to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the legendary goth rock band. The notoriously disagreeable singer, who returns to South Florida after playing Ft. Lauderdale’s Culture Room in 2011, will dedicate his set exclusively to Bauhaus’s catalog. [...]

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